HMS Blackwood (K313)
Service
- as HMS Blackwood27 March 1943 — 16 June 1944447 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Blackwood
- Pennant / hull number
- K313
- Namesake
- Henry Blackwood
- Builder
- Boston Navy Yard, Massachusetts
- Laid down
- 22 September 1942
- Launched
- 23 November 1942
- Commissioned
- 27 March 1943
- Fate
- Sunk under tow, 16 June 1944 (1944)
- Status
- Wreck
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,190 long tons (1,209 t)
- Length
- 88.09 m (289 ft)
- Beam
- 10.67 m (35 ft)
- Draught
- 3.05 m (10 ft)
- Speed
- 20 knots (37 km/h, 23 mph)
- Range
- 6,000 nmi (11,112 km)
- Complement
- 198
- Main gun
- 76 mm (3 in)
HMS Blackwood was a Captain-class frigate of the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number K313. The ship was named after Henry Blackwood. Her keel was laid at Boston Navy Yard, Massachusetts on 22 September 1942. Launched on 23 November 1942, she entered service on 27 March 1943.
Her class ran to 46 ships.
Displacement was 1,190 long tons. She measured 88.1 m (289 ft) long with a beam of 10.7 m (35 ft). Her designed speed was 20 knots, and she carried a complement of 198.
Her main battery was three 76 mm (3 in) guns. Her machinery developed 6,000 shp through two shafts.
She was in commission for 447 days of the Second World War.
She was sunk on 16 June 1944, at 50°07′N 2°01′W. The wreck survives.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- 2 shafts; 4 diesel engines
- Power
- 6000 shp electric motors
- Armament
- 3 × single 3 in/50 Mk 22 guns
- 1 × twin Bofors 40 mm
- 9 × single 20 mm Oerlikon guns
- 1 × Hedgehog anti-submarine mortar
- 2 × Depth charge rails and four throwers
Sister ships
- HMS Affleck
- HMS Aylmer
- HMS Balfour
- HMS Bayntun
- HMS Bentley
- HMS Berry
- HMS Braithwaite
- HMS Bullen
- HMS Burges (K347)
- HMS Byard
- HMS Capel (K470)
- HMS Cooke
- HMS Cotton
- HMS Cranstoun
- HMS Cubitt
- HMS Curzon (K513)
- HMS Dacres
- HMS Deane
- HMS Domett
- HMS Drury
- HMS Essington (K353)
- HMS Foley (K474)
- HMS Gardiner
- HMS Garlies
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Blackwood (K313) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Unknown author — http://www.hmscavalier.org.uk/book1/224/ — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons